Technical Tip: Support on backup with SFTP protocol

Description

This article describes if FortiGate is supporting using SFTP protocol.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

Backup from CLI is not supported with SFTP protocol.

The following option is available:

exe backup full-config
ftp         <----- Backup full config file to FTP server.
tftp        <----- Backup full config file to TFTP server.
usb         <----- Backup full config file to USB disk.
usb-mode    <----- Backup full config file for USB mode.

From v7.0.1 onwards, SFTP is supported: SFTP Configuration Backup